It was released around the world under various different titles, such as Sternenkrieger literally "Star Warriors" in Germany. It was rumored that June Foray provided the voice of Zandra, though this has been proven as untrue. On hearing that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein would try to cut Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable, Toshio Suzuki personally gifted a replica katana with a simple message: "No cuts".
The DVD version made it around the world uncut. Despite being massive critical and commercial hit, Miyazaki felt the film only deserved a rating of 65 points. Even if I had another six months, I would have only reached 68 points.
Suzuki was even harsher, giving the film a score of 30 and saying, "Miyazaki-san is not just a director, but a writer, so I wanted him to move on to a newer horizon. It's disappointing that we're looking back on the present from the future.
I want to go back to being an animator. When asked by the studio and fans on producing a sequel, he declined, explaining that didn't even have a conclusion to the mange, and had no idea how it would end up. The profits earned from the film were later used in the production of The Story of Yanagawa's Canals , a documentary released in August Tokuma said that he had been persistently asking and writing letters to Miyazaki every time they met.
Hideaki Anno offered to make a gaiden spinoff featuring Princess Kushana, but Miyazaki said that Anno's project was all about "wanting to play war" and would be "the worst thing to do. In , Miyazaki suffered from poor physical health during the production of The Wind Rises , which caused him to reconsider his decision as he thought he was close to death. Cover art by Hayao Miyazaki.
The track album contains synthesized interpretations of the existing orchestrated tracks from the official soundtrack. Joe Hisaishi was hired to compose and arrange the film's score. This would be his first involvement with Miyazaki's works.
The soundtrack featured the theme song composed by Haruomi Hosono and sung by Narumi Yasuda. Neither Miyazaki nor Takahata had any prior knowledge of Hisashi.
It is said the flashback song The Distant Days was sung by Mai, the daughter of Hisaishi, who was four years old at the time. Initially, Miyazaki wanted to use Vladimir Vysotsky's The Song of the Earth as the theme song, but couldn't acquire it due to copyright issues. The main soundtrack was produced using a member orchestra, and instruments such as the Prophet-5, LinnDrum, MC4, and DX7, and folk instruments such as quena, tabla, and dulcimer were used.
Following its release, the soundtrack to the film ranked 8th on the Oricon album chart [23] and the theme song sung by Narumi Yasuda is ranked 10th on the single chart.
Serialized in Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine, the first chapter was published in February , and the last chapter in March As can be expected, the story of the manga is far more complex than that of the film. The tale depicted in the film roughly corresponds to only the first quarter of the manga which is all that had been written at the time the film was produced , with significant differences in plot.
In addition to the plot, there are other significant differences in the story — the characters are more developed and the environmentalist tone is more sophisticated, echoed in the complex worldview of Princess Mononoke. Ghibli Wiki. Warning: the wiki content may contain spoilers! Ghibli Wiki Explore. Featured works. Ocean Waves. Whisper of the Heart. The Cat Returns. Studio Ghibli.
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You're a girl who thinks strange things. We aren't planning to use a God Warrior in battle! Tomorrow, if you meet everyone, you'll understand! What sympathy and friendship it is The Ohmu are opening their hearts Children - substitute for my blind eyes and look well for me.
That kind of thing has been going on for the last three years and it's been really hard. Ogata, Hideo ed. Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten. Suzuki , p. Universal Conquest Wiki. The ruined ocean came to be called the Wasteland, and, giving off poisonous vapor, its forest of fungi spreads, until it threatens the existence of the declining human race. Minoru Yada.
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Pre-Ghibli works. Nevertheless, in a world stricken by devastating nuclear holocaust, where giant bugs rule over mankind with their poisonous spores and massive swarming of all who oppose them, perhaps humanity needs a hippy rebel leader.
Heard this all before? Nausicaa rides some sort of rocket-powered air glider, fights off giant bugs, saves prisoners, so on, etc. Things are even more pleasant to look at when considering Miyazaki was showing the world his directorial prowess for the first time ever.
Helping this, the music is top-notch, with full orchestra and some great war anthems to fit the theme. Welcome to feminist rule, you chauvinist pigs! Despite the considerable star power assembled for this cast, the dialogue at times comes off as flat, perhaps because each actor's part was recorded separately; without other actors to react to, it's hard to find the right emotional resonance. The most faithful performance comes out of Sarandon, who matches Kurotowa's original Japanese tone almost exactly.
Sarandon credited the visuals for helping him, as Kurotowa's perpetual smirk and slightly sagging eyelids immediately signal his droll personality. It underscores how designs and details set Miyazaki apart from everyone else in animation. Those small visual cues, telling facial expressions and true-to-life details populate Miyazaki's work.
A close-up of hands trembling as they close a wounded person's tunic expresses the victim's prospects or lack thereof better than any words or graphic imagery.
Massive windmill arrays showcase the valley's defining characteristic. A pair of long, pointy ears easing to rest against an animal's skull convey everything the viewer needs to know about a change of mood. Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind may suffer from age and flaws born of early experimentation, but it remains the Ur-film for epic animation.
Big ambitions inspire great designs; little things bring them to life. Nausicaa has both in abundance. Black levels are handled properly, and this transfer reproduces the colors very well. Miyazaki's palette retains its gentle, earthy look. But as a digital production -- viewers lacking digital TV can see the difference if they have PCs with DVD players -- this widescreen version looks like a token wipe pushed through just to get the product out.
Edge enhancement halos crop up all over the place. Graininess and softness abound. On a few occasions, characters in the distance blur so much that while moving they're almost smears that happen to have some black lines in them. The video is free of combing errors and aliasing problems, but that's to be expected with so much digital "enhancement. At least it's a very good two-channel mix, keeping Joe Hisaishi's memorable soundtrack strong while balancing voices, ambient noises, battle sounds and sonic effects extremely well so that nothing overpowers or suddenly forces viewers to grab for the volume control.
As already noted, the disc includes the original Japanese vocals with subtitles as an alternative to the English dubbing. Freed from the need to track mouth animations, the subtitles offer a more direct translation than the dubs.
Disney's previous Ghibli releases have come in Amaray boxes. Viewers might expect a comprehensive set of extras on a two disc set. Too bad Disney continues its pattern of thin extras for much of the Ghibli material. This set has only two featurettes. The first disc's longest extra is a minute documentary, originally filmed for the Japanese market, about the creation of Studio Ghibli. Although Miyazaki gets his due as the studio leader and main creative force, the piece spends more time on Toshio Suzuki and his gradual evolution from a journalist for Animage magazine to executive producer for Ghibli.
It has some interest from a factual point of view, but without any direct conversation with Miyazaki -- he rarely provides interviews -- there's scant insight into the master's artistic approach and thematic values. The content is barely informative -- the difficulty of matching English translations with original Japanese dialogue is no great secret.
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